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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Feb 2015
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      5. To speculate: other public places wouldn't work so well. Restaurants would eat into a clergy-person's limited finances.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Feb 2015
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      6. There are spiritual discussions in bars, but those are more more ad hoc staring into the bottom of a empty glass affairs.

      4 replies 1 retweet 6 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Feb 2015
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      7. So a coffee house is 1) cheap 2) place you can sit and talk 3) non-alcoholic

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Feb 2015
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      8. Lots of interesting alternative explanations in my TL, which I've been re-tweeting.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Feb 2015
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      9. But aside from all these interestingexplanations, isn't there also something in nature of religion itself connected with public dining.

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Feb 2015
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      10. It's a modern, Protestant-inflected notion that religion is an internal, private thing. But most religions are social, communal, shared

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Feb 2015
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      11. Primordial religious experiences are the shared meal (which is why dietary restrictions so key to many religions in marking boundaries)

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Feb 2015
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      12. Shabbat, Mass, Iftar, Langar, etc. -- all different of course but all examples of how shared consumption is integral to religion.

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Feb 2015
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      13. In any case, talking about God over coffee is an interesting cross-denominational (and cross faith) ad hoc ritual.

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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Feb 2015
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      14. I'm tempted to revise Marx & say religion isn't the opium of the masses but the coffee of the masses.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Feb 2015

      15. Beyond the religious stuff, coffee houses interesting as rare modern public space of relaxed sociability. Need more such spaces!

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        2. Chris Turner‏Verified account @theturner 17 Feb 2015
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          @HeerJeet One of modern society's few ubiquitous "third places." Quite a bit of scholarship on this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place …

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        3. Jacob Margolies‏ @thecob82 17 Feb 2015
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          @theturner @HeerJeet Herbert Gold had a good book on coffee houses and bohemia about 20 years back. http://www.amazon.com/Bohemia-Where-Angst-Strong-Coffee/dp/0975366246 …

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        1. Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn‏ @JonathanCohn 17 Feb 2015
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          @HeerJeet The similarity/contrast between the social function of the coffee house and the social function of the bar/pub is very interesting

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        1. Dr. Robin Mazumder‏Verified account @RobinMazumder 17 Feb 2015
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          @HeerJeet One of the few indoor spaces you don't need to spend too much $$ to connect with others.

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        2. Gross old man on Plentyoffish‏ @johnsonpenelope 17 Feb 2015
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          @HeerJeet recommend a gateway text to appreciation of religious thought for a confirmed atheist?

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Feb 2015
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          @johnsonpenelope I think Huston Smith's The World's Religions is a good, fair minded introductory book.

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        1. Irene Cavalier‏ @Witiw 17 Feb 2015
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          @HeerJeet Religious stuff? How insulting and arrogant. I do not condone religious nonsense but neither do I condone superficial judgements.

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        2. Graham Nickel‏ @gdnickel 17 Feb 2015
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          @HeerJeet Coffee houses are also non-gendered & non-sexual. Dinner is too intimate & offices too private for casual mixed-gender discussion.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Feb 2015
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          @gdnickel Good points

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        1. Graham Nickel‏ @gdnickel 17 Feb 2015
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          @HeerJeet I can go for a coffee with my neighbour buddy (Tim’s, not Starbucks mind you) & it’s public enough that no one’s going to cry 😭

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